Thousands of devotees clad in white robes gathered on a Rio de Janeiro beach on Monday to offer prayers and tributes to Yemanjá, the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea.

"As many animals appear during this migration, it is common to find some dead ones, it is common for some of them to be stranded dead or die at sea.” "It's a very decomposed animal, in an advanced ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Just days ahead of the Olympic Games, the waterways of Rio de Janeiro are as filthy as ever, contaminated with raw human sewage teeming with dangerous viruses and bacteria, according ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - One minute Victor Javier was rapt in a carefree game of beach football; the next he was a hapless victim of Rio de Janeiro's "shock of order" crackdown. Two city guards in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — If you have been to Rio de Janeiro’ beaches, this probably sounds familiar: samba music drifting from a nearby kiosk, caipirinha cocktails sold by hawkers, chairs sprawled across ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Bianca D’Aquino adjusts her parasol to block the blazing sun and settles into her beach chair, sinking her painted toenails deep into the burning sand. The 19-year-old used to travel ...